Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Happiness
Happy is the unity of the Sangha. Happy is the discipline of the united ones.
-Dhammapada " Dhammapada 194"
If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door.
-Robert Brault
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
-Thomas Jefferson
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be
-Marcel Pagnol
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called ‘All The Things That Could Go Wrong’.
-Marianne Williamson
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
